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WS Ref #: 1368 , Witness: William Hanley, Officer IRA, Tipperary, 1921
... is just one mile from Kilcommon Cross and it was in the village that the post office was located. In order to counteract the raiding of the mails between the post office and the police barracks, the R.I.C. began to collect their mail at the post office in the month of November, 1920 ...
... Remained adjutant of the battalion until the truce, and I continue& in the post of captain ... , Ned Conlon became captain of the Kilcommon Company. In the other companies, too, the post ...
... or post it signified. My connection with the Irish Volunteer movement commenced about August, 1917 ...
... brigade headquarters to post snipers in the vicinity of some of these barricades to shoot at the enemy ...
WS Ref #: 351 , Witness: Fergus O'Kelly, Member IV, Dublin, 1916
... " began to affect the position. A message was brought to me from the Post Office signed "Capt. Breen ... by the bearer that it was authentic and we should evacuate the premises and retire to the Post Office. I ... to the Post Office, but would probably be bac. There was serious disinclination to leave ...
... to the Post Office. Some parts of it were extremely heavy and bringing than down the narrow stairs was very ... journey to the Post Office. Before all the parts could be removed, however, the position became quite ... back to the Post Office was very difficult, as both Abbey St. and Marlboro' St. were under fire ...
... 6. Each Volunteer was to try and bring some food with him. An advance party left headed by The O'Rahilly, who was killed in a lane just outside the Post Office on the Henry St. side. The whole garrison, however, passed through this lane and took up positions in the houses along Moore St. Signed ...
... . and then towards Nelson's Pillar along the Post Office side of O'Connell St. close to the footpath ... " and immediately Geo. Plunkett shouted "Take the Post Office". At that, the men broke ranks and rushed forward in through the main entrance to the Post Office. Shortly afterwards the public who were ...
... and would be under fire from across the river, I sent word to the Post Office that the D.B.C ...
WS Ref #: 360 , Witness: Seamus Daly, Member IV and IRB Dublin, 1916
... were already out, that Pearce was in the Post Office, and demanded that we should be marched ... to the Post Office, but some of the other chaps said; “I know where M. W. Is”, He was our Company Captain ... that the Post Office had been taken over, and that the Citizen Army and some of the 1st and 3rd Battns ...
... , Seamus, look at our flag up on the Post Office”. The flag was on the G. P. O. - the Republican flag ... with that, we filed into the Post Office. We wore marched into the Post Office, and we fell ...
... got a message across to the Post Office, telling them that we did not think we could stay there any longer, that the men were being suffocated with smoke. The reply we got from the Post Office ...
... in to the Post Office now”. We started off for the G. P. 0. We marched down along the same road ... back streets so as to come out at O’Connell Street at the nearest point to the Pest Office that we ...
... were convinced then, that already, the Volunteers had taken over the Post Office in the city ...
... from the tanks. Meantime, there was heavy firing going on from the Post Office, on and ...
... -37- Drennan said to me; "Listen, they want some bedding across in the Post Office", would you ever take something across to them?.". So I did. I took a bundle of blankets and raced across the street. The first journey was absolutely uneventful. I got there and delivered the blankets. They said ...
... to evacuate the building, but we were to make no attempt to got across to7 the Poet Office ... air, and that keeps me at my post". And he called out to me one time and said; "Is this the end ...
... think was Gilbeys, we proceeded to barricade the windows and post sentries. Within half an hour I ...
... War Office W. D. van belonging to the British Ministry of Munitions came along under Major Downey ...
... , and into a big office where we were conducted in. The first man vie met was a very nice, polite gentleman ...
WS Ref #: 511 , Witness: Michael Lynch, OC Fingal Brigade IRA, 1921
... in the Jail post office, I weighed myself, and I was eleven stone twelve pounds; on the 1st July, when ... gained sixteen pounds in thirty days. Working in the post office in the jail helped to pass the time ... from home. One day I was working in the post office, which was in the main hail on the ground floor ...
... it. The mail from Gormanston Camp came on a Post Office car, escorted by a Crossley tender full of slack and Tans, to the Post Office in Balbriggan. The mails were then sorted, transferred to a handcart ...
... cowardly hound!", I roared out. Sergeant Hurd caught me, jerked me back into the post office and, shutting ...
... to me possibly deserves mention. We had instituted what we called the "Irish Republican post office ...
... of an armed raid on a Post Office in Ennis, County Clare. The officer in charge of the area ...
... the post of Adjutant General and devote a],]. his energies towards reconstructing the Intelligence Service. Gearóid O'Sullivan was then unanimously picked as Adjutant General. He brought to his post ... the Directorate of Munitions by Dick Mulcahy and sent out to Fingal. The post of Director of Munitions ...
... permission. Emmnet said, "Very well! Where is the Governor?". The warder said, "In his office there, gentlemen". Joe and Emmet swung open the door into the Governor's office and walked into a crowd ...
... -4- us ruahedthe gate myself, Paddy Maloney, Jim Foran and another and held up the office staff. An officer of the Union immediately ran from the gate office over to an inner office in the yard, unnoticed by most of us, and attempted to use the 'phone. Foran followed him, covered him with his ...
... . thank you!". I swung round and left the office. My friend, the Sergeant, started off with his usual ... , and I guessed that I was wanted at the same office. I walked along, heedless of his roaring behind me ... quickly up to the office that I had visited the previote day. The Sergeant was coming behind me. I ...
... this latter raid as another search for Collins. I attended my office regularly and came home to my meals ... on for four or five days. One day when I was in my office, Accountant's office of the Dublin ...
... going up to the ticket-office and buying something like sixty-eight third-class return tickets to Newry. While the clerk in the office was recovering, about one hundred and twenty-eight men passed ...
... in Cork City Hall, in his office, the desk was opened and searched. In it was foun4 the letter which I ...
... -5- Tuesday morning we were amazed to see them evacuating the post and proceeding in pairs towards the city. I did not see the officer in charge. We shouted at them but they gave no sign of recognition. Everything at our end was perfectly quiet until the Thursday. My aunt was a ward mistress ...
... -8- know. Shortly after the priest's departure, Commandant Ceannt summoned us all down to one of the dormitories on the ground floor. He told us that arrangements for a surrender had been made, and that he was handing up his post and surrendering to the British. He said that, if any of us wished ...
... -68- a wet night earlier on, and the sentry, apparently feeling cold and miserable, was not at his post. The dogs were sleeping peacefully. Paddy walked around the hut twice, looking for the sentry. Phe plan was to walk up to the sentry and, while he was presenting arms, to hit him on the chin ...
... was that we murdered policemen, and the other was that we robbed banks and post offices. As regards ...
... card and paid a weekly subscription. I was employed as a clerk in the Rates Office, Dublin ...
... in". "Prisoner, left turn! Quick march! Halt! Stand at ease!" I was in a small office. "This is E.3.35, Sergeant ...
... day, Matt Furlong came to my office and ...
... -65- Raid on Collinstown Aerodrome: One afternoon when returning from my job in the Accounts Office of the Corporation, I overtook Tom Byrne, who was then O/C, 1st Battalion, Dublin Brigade. He told me, quite confidentially, that there were big things in contemplation by his Battalion during ...
... . We went to Michael Collins at his office at 32, ...
... , which took place in the Dublin Typographical Institution Office, 35 Lower Gardiner Street. I spoke ...
... office work regularly and, one day when cycling home towards Drumcondra for lunch, coming down Parnell ...
... . They said they were going over to the Independent office to bump off the editor, Harrington. I said, "Oh ...
... the original script from the "Independent" office but failed. Some sub-editor has consigned ...
... to going to my office, and, when I came down for breakfast, my mother silently pointed to a paragraph in the ...
... his head. I went off to the office. When I returned home for lunch shortly after one ...
... -122- defenders. There was one casualty among the defenders, a man by the name of Quinn, who got his eye severely damaged by a bayonet, which was thrown at him. It flicked past his eye and inflicted a nasty wound on the bone. I think this man lost his eye. I called to the "Independent" office ...
... in the basement of the office building and, on hearing the shot fired, which ...
... -129- Auxiliaries bent down to look at it, Joe and Emmet pulled their guns and called on them to put up their hands. This order was obeyed. The Auxiliaries were disarmed and tied up as hastily as possible. The Governor was taken out of the room and across the hall into the Deputy Governor's office ...
... -148- an establishment in Aungier Street, for making window blinds, and who was really a wonderful character, was coming home from this job at about two o'clock in the morning, with his brother, Gabriel. When they had reached, roughly, the "Irish Times" office in Weatmoreland Street, they were ...
... or so later, for a sworn investigation into the escape, to be held in the Governor's office ...
WS Ref #: 574 , Witness: John McGonnell, Captain IRA, Monaghan, 1921
... Hogan to carry out a raid on the Post Office in Clones at 3 a.m. on a Monday morning. The mails arrived at Clones Post Office from the railway station at this time. I and about seven of my men waited around the corner from the Post Office in Carra Street until the van containing the mails arrived ...
... 1921, I carried out anotherraid on Clones Post Office in much the same manner and again I conveyed ...
... 16. County Donegal County Derry Frontier. Concerning the various ranks I held in the I.R.A. both pre and post Truce before the appointment of Mat Fitzpatrick as Battalion O/C. in 1920, I occupied that post for about two months. I think that my appointment as Battalion 0/C. was due to the arrest ...
... Headquarters of the I.R.A. in Dublin. O'Malley gave us a lecture on attacking a military post, and at the end of the ...
WS Ref #: 687 , Witness: M.J. Curran, Rector, Irish College, Rome, 1921
... in the Central Post Office to ensure that the text of all telegrams sent by prominent Irishmen should ... , not through the ordinary Post Offices but through the Post Office at the. Central Railway Station, and so escaped their passage through the General Post Office. In view of this anti-Irish effort ...
... Henry Street windows of the• General Post Office which were facing towards the Rotunda. Volunteers ... -46- Tramway office (60 Upper O'Connell Street) and the Pillar Picture Theatre. They were ... to make a representation. "Your soldiers", I said, "are firing at the corner windows of the Post ...
... be pointed out that the Post-master Generalship was reserved for Redmond but, in accordance with the decision arrived at, at a meeting of the Irish Party in the Mansion House, he refused to take office ... thing Ireland has gained during the Liberal period of office was University building. It might have ...
... attack British Launch in Bantry Harbour: On the night of the 16-17th November, 1919, a daring raid on a naval launch in Bantry Harbour shocked British Government and press as much as the Navy. An armed ...
... of Peace Treaty. 416 215. Volunteers attack British launch in Bantry Bay. 416 216. Alleged ...
... in the 'Times' and 'Morning Post' show the use they were prepared to make of the Irish Church "Heads I win; tails you lose!" I may allude to the article in the 'Morning Post' on the 14th February, 1921 ...
... Office. I must leave it to Mr. O'Kelly himself to describe the rather humorous history of his successful attempt. To the amazement of the Foreign Office officials, the passport was granted ... in the Grand Hotel and opened an office. Seán T. O'Kelly seeks Interview with President Wilson and inaugurates ...
... that the case would be referred to the Sacred Penitentiary rather than to the Holy Office, in order that he ... appeared in print. It was even more satisfactory to learn that the Assessors of the Holy Office itself ... certain that a condemnation of the hunger-strike by the Holy Office would not take place. I find ...
... Post Offices and Police Barracks, got some twelve rifles and marched to Garristown. All Lusk is wild ...
... -191- A significant comment on this meeting of the Irish Party is provided by the London correspondent of the 'Liverpool Post' who wrote:- "While their deliberations [on the manifesto] were in progress, the little figure of Mr. Patrick O'Brien, the genial Whip of the Party, was to be seen stealing ...
... a body of Orangemen to vote for Mr. Donnelly." The Belfast correspondent of the 'Morning Post' reported ...
... November, 1919, in a leading article the 'Morning Post' stated: "Our political correspondent yesterday ...
... Students' Union) distributed the remaining copies by post and otherwise. To the best of my recollection ...
... in the 'Annals' of the 'Irish Catholic Directory (1921)' for 1920. The soreness of the 'Morning Post ...
... from the walls that project from the A.B.C. office". These British soldiers were behind the low walls, three or four feet high, at the A.B.C. office, which is the present ...
... ventured past the tramway office, on the right hand side, i.e., east, the Hammam and Gresham Hotels ... near John Burke's (solicitor) office. He was one of the D'Arcy's the brewery people. He ...
... from the British Foreign Office to the Foreign Press: The 'Times' of the 23rd July publishes ... of "doped" news from the British Foreign Office to the foreign press. It goes without saying ...
... Irish League Office, 39 Upper O'Connell Street. It is called an "Appeal to the People ...
... George and Samuel at the War Office. His account of the interview, given during the debate ...
... -194- proclamation was issued by the Commander-in-Chief of the forces in Ireland prohibiting the processions within Dublin, except the procession of the Lard Mayor in Dublin and such processions as were authorised. "A.E's" interview with General Smuts. Archbishop refuses permission for War Office ...
... and disasters of the past four years. "With all the responsibility that attaches to our office, we ...
... Office, stating that Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, was anxious that Cardinal Logue should ...
... some delay Father O'Flanagan was notified On March 21st that the Foreign Office had refused his ...
... the Government policy in Ireland. Now that he was out of office, Asquith was able to recognise ...
... of the London office of the 'Independent'. His column in its issue of the 24th October, 1921 ...
... -15- The "approval" they got was the following letter by-return of post: "Dear Sir, I have received your letter, informing me that your Council "has taken the liberty of producing, and proposes to distribute a poster" containing some words spoken by me last Sunday. In reply I have only to say ...
... the post in the following weeks. Of course, there was nothing openly significant in it, and he did ...
... that the military were firing on their Red Cross Post at Clery's, and asked me whether the Archbishop could take ...
... the approaches from Abbey Street. I was very much impressed by the courage with which he stuck to his post ...
... and to that of the Ulster leaders, found himself debarred from assuming that post himself ...
... George the position of the post of Under-Secretary of Ireland, he becoming a civilian. Hutchinson agreed ...
... without exception were closed. The opening of the courts, banks and post offices made no impression ...
... prospect of success in the post- conscription elections. ...
... the hearse. At the grave volleys were fired and the Last Post sounded. Over 2,500 Volunteers marched, while ...
... attending the beatification ceremonies would be few. Post-war conditions abroad as well as in Ireland ...
... and their suppression in Ireland could not but have given them much reason to think. The 'Morning Post' in its issue ...
... -502- the "impossible and incredible neutraii4r of the general body of the Irish bishops". It called upon the Irish bishops to openly array themselves as a body against the "forces of evil". A similar article appeared in the 'Morning Post' in February following the Pastoral of Cardinal Bourne ...
... greedily seized on by the 'Morning Post' and similar English papers. The Agenzia Stefani at once ...
... -5- Page 89. Manifesto of Irish Parliamentary Party shows change of attitude. 190 90. British military activity suggests fear of another rebellion. 192 91. Count Plunkett invites Archbishop to Conference. 193 92. "A.E'S" interview with General Smuts. Archbishop refuses permission for War Office ...
... asked to procure a Priest at the Pro-Cathedral: Leaving Seán T. O'Kelly in his office, I cycled ...
... by the Volunteers, and the machine-gun mounted on it is firing on the Royal Barracks. The office ...
... also driven out of the 'Mail' office or, rather, all were killed." Such were the reports we received ...
... between the military stationed in both the Rotunda and the Ballast Office and the Volunteers ...
... not be recalled. [I took it that she was an employee in the telephone office, or the Castle, and was anxious ...
... -90- Archbishop asking him to call on Asquith tomorrow [16th May, 1916] as Asquith was anxious to have an interview with him. The Archbishop replied he was still an invalid and was sorry 1w could not call to the Vice-Regal." On May 16th, 1916, I have recorded that, at the office of B. Collins, 1 ...
... -128- In England and abroad immediate civil war was fully expected. Field Marsha]. Lord Roberts declared that the British Army would, be paralysed if force were employed against Ulster. The War Office itself, through Sir Henry Wilson, was in close alliance with Belfast: War correspondents ...
... -276- purpose of the voyage'. I would be glad if you would kindly have authority issued to enable me to convey the document which has been drawn up for presentation to President Wilson." In reply the Lord Mayor received a note from the Foreign Office on the 18th May, stating that Mr. Balf our ...
... the heavy responsibilities of his office:- "to take in hand and have settled the greatest difficulty ...
... -319- polemics I have found stale and unprofitable and devoid of all attraction. Hence I feel that the less time and attention I waste on them, the better for myself and for the office which I have been appointed to fil1." Letters of Archbishop Walsh, "Tulcan" and Dr. Fogarty explain why people ...
... . Tom Morrissey of the Records Office was visiting the Archbishop's House on the same business, de ...
... T. O'Kelly. handed to Clemenceau's secretary at the French Foreign Office a letter from de Valera ...
... , the 'Times' reports that the County Tipperary Council had accepted the War Office offer of two German ...
... to his office. What sort of view that was hardly needs to be set forth in detail. But the progress ...
... in the Annals of the Council of Trent. He held that office and devoted much attention to his protectorate ...
... of the Holy Office, the supreme authority on faith and morals. It was the Congregation, above all others ...
... of 'Studies'. Other Irish articles appeared later when the question was shelved by the Holy Office ...
... the Holy Office. He wished to leave the matte between Terence MacSwiney and his confessor. Cardinal ...
... -495- of Sean T. O'Kelly's reception to the Irish bishops in the Grand Hotel in the previous May, he received a letter from Reuter's London office saying that nobody in England took any interest in these things. On this occasion too he showed us a telegram he had received from Esmonde in America ...
... , I ãent a letter reporting on the situation to Sen T. O'Kelly through the 'Independent' office. Later ...
... took up office on the 19th May. He was the first and last Catholic Viceroy since "Fighting" Dick Talbot ...
WS Ref #: 735 , Witness: Charles J MacAuley, Member Prisoners Aid Association; Attended wounded IRA prisoners
... . Fitzgerald if he were in the Post Office. She hesitated before answering, but said he was not. I ... went into the Post Office. Everything was very quiet. The windows were barricaded ... leaving, however, I inquired of somebody was Joseph Plunkett in the Post Office. I was brought over ...
... reached Kingsbridge there was a group of people gathered who told us that the General Post Office had ...
... in Merrion Square". The last thing I remember about the Post Office in the early hours of Easter ...
WS Ref #: 758 , Witness: Tom Kelleher, Member IV and IRA, Waterford, 1917 - 1921
... ROINN COSANTA. BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY, 1913-21. STATEMENT BY WITNESS DOCUMENT NO. W.S. 758 Witness Tom Kelleher, The Post Office, Cappoquin, Co. Waterford. Identity. Member of Cappoquin (Co. Waterford) Company Irish Volunteers, 1917-1921. Subject. Activities of the Irish Volunteers, Cappoquin ...
... Lincoln's sister, Fanny, who was then a post office employee, was to arrange in the course of sorting ... all the other bundles as well, because, otherwise the job might lead to suspicion on the Post Office ...
... STATEMENT BY THOMAS KELLEHER, THE POST OFFICE, CAPPOQUIN. I was born in Cappoquin in 1901. My father was a native of Lismore and my mother was from Dublin and came of old Fenian stock. I joined the local Company of Volunteers in 1917, at a reorganisation in Green Street, Cappoquin, which ...
... for censoring and after censoring they were returned within a few days to Cappagh Post Office. I do ...
... Post to a Constable Lindsay of the R.I.C. in Cappoquin - Lindsay was the I.0. to the R.I.C. Post ...
... -6- Following this shooting the R.I.C. fired a number of verey lights seeking assistance from Lismore Military Post, but none came. Later that week there was intense military and police activity, but no arrests were made. Of course, the R.I.C. knew that the shots had been fired from a passing car ...
WS Ref #: 1595 , Witness: Seamus Babington, Officer IRA, Tipperary, 1921
... investigation, to lay a finger on the identity of the spy, for in every post office in Ireland ... form of treachery or spying. We had friends in the Post Office at Ballypatrick, as well ... Ballypatrick post office to his brother, who was a postal clerk in Clonmel post office, informing him ...
... -44- Comeraghs bawneen and a wide. Jerry hat, and when I put them on outside the post office, my comrades had to ask mc my name, so good was the guise. Passers-by remarked, 'There's an old shepherd from the mountain!" Twenty-five yards further along the road, I wrapped them up in a parcel ...
... Dillion who sent the news to his brother in the post office, Clonmel, was not fully normal ...
... a letter into a town post office when shopping the whole weakness of our armed forces would have ...
... -43- destroyed. In most cases, these goods were food, clothes, boots, delph, etc., etc. Post offices and postmen '.ere deprived of letters1 parcels, etc.1 addressed to the enemy or to residents under ... before the scheduled time, to be in a named place, but never the actual vicinity of the place, post ...
... be suitable for the post of Commandant. After three hours' deliberation, the gay, laughing and carefree ...
... the new A. Company Adjutant, Frank Barrett, for the post of Battalion Adjutant. He was an assistant ...
... and horrible work, it meant instant death to the Volunteer concerned. Most significant, from post ...
... -32- It was too much to expect a man to work at his ordinary work for ten hours a day, as well as doing the immense duty then imposed on officers in looking after a large Battalion and an active Company, unless he was working in a shop or an office for his father or with an uncle, like I was, who ...
... of documents and correspondence that was kept in the business office. for two years was a record, I ...
WS Ref #: 1691 , Witness: Ernest R Jordison, Manager and Director, British Petroleum Co. Ltd, Dublin, 1916
... their barracks and to attack the Irish Volunteers who had taken over the General Post Office, but they were ... for the Post Office. These appeared to be covered with sacking. I, at the time, concluded it was ammunition and stores being taken into the General Post Office. The Post Office windows were all built up ...
... of terrible happenings in Dublin. Reports were flying about that the Irish Volunteers had attacked the Post Office at exactly twelve o'clock, and that a policeman had been shot dead at the entrance ...
... , "By Appointment. Purveyors to His Majesty the King. I v/as in my office in East. Road, North Wall ... Company, Limited then was a German company, with their head office in Hamburg, but their head office ... and director, with my head office in East Road, Dublin. Immediately after the War, I suggested ...
... While I was in the office going through some particulars, a small Ford motor van arrived, with several men and the driver. This van, which belonged to the firm of Hampton, Leedom & Co., chemists ... the telegraph and postal office which was situated at the main entrance to the Custom House ...
... guard right opposite my house, and, as there was a lamp post on the footpath at the gate of my ...
... Further particulars of this change can be obtained from official quarters should you require it, but the change did not take place during my period of office. On the Tuesday following Easter Week, 1916, I left Dublin city for Galway, by motor car. Very few people were about, the whole way ...